Typical of the left to pretend…. Oh heck, LIE about a subject as though no regulation exists in an area.

They like to imply that there are no restriction s or infringements on the 2nd amendment as of now an that all their talking about is just the tinniest little regulation – when in fact it’s just another diminishment of that right.

“Curiously, during the period before deinstitutionalization, the mentally ill seem to have been less likely to be arrested for serious crimes than the general population.”

“Studies in New York and Connecticut from the 1920s through the 1940s showed a much lower arrest rate for the mentally ill. In an era when involuntary commitment was relatively easy, those who were considered a danger to themselves or others would be hospitalized at the first signs of serious mental illness. The connection between insanity and crime was apparent, and the society took a precautionary approach. Mentally ill persons who were not hospitalized were those not considered a danger to others. This changed as deinstitutionalization took effect.”

]]>By: r kellerhttp://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2012/12/16/connecticut-shootings-isolated-incident-or-cultural-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-2219436
Mon, 17 Dec 2012 00:28:46 +0000http://hotair.com/headlines/?p=233104#comment-2219436This is a glimpse into the soul of the leftist ‘experimenters’ who are leading our country into oblivion

For those of us who came of age in the 1970s, one of the most shocking aspects of the last three decades was the rise of mass public shootings: people who went into public places and murdered complete strangers. Such crimes had taken place before, such as the Texas Tower murders by Charles Whitman in 1966,1 but their rarity meant that they were shocking.

Something changed in the 1980s: these senseless mass murders started to happen with increasing frequency. People were shocked when James Huberty killed twenty-one strangers in a McDonald’s in San Ysidro, California in 1984, and Patrick Purdy murdered five children in a Stockton, California schoolyard in 1989. Now, these crimes have become background noise, unless they involve an extraordinarily high body count (such as at Virginia Tech) or a prominent victim (such as Rep. Gabrielle Giffords). Why did these crimes go from extraordinarily rare to commonplace?

leftists like to think they are ‘scientific’…disgusting prattle from low information people…the crime is the horrors that have been inflicted on families, the victims and, yes, the mentally ill themselves

And indictment of an ideology gone horribly wrong…but the left clings to their dystopian religious fervently

and i’m sure that leftists already have their bill written, just waiting, patiently, to impose it

Are you saying that people, who have demonstrated a desire to do exactly what James Holmes did in Aurora, for example, have a right to live freely amongst us? He had already telegraphed via a journal and his sessions with a psychiatrist that he was going to do exactly what he did.

There was nothing “supposedly” about the mental health of Loughner, Holmes, Cho, etc. Their schizophrenia or schizophrenic tendencies were WELL KNOWN to their families, schools, and communities beforehand. That’s why, after almost all of these rampage killings, we hear from the people that knew them, “I feel bad for the victims, but I’m not surprised. The dude was a mental case. Always has been.”

According to one poster, we do not, apparently, have the right to have those that actually threaten harm removed from society. Their right to live amongst us is greater than our right to demand, at least, a certain floor of acceptable behaviour and decorum in society.

In the wake of the Holocaust, millions of people wondered “How could Hitler have done what he did? We had no idea that he hated Jews and others so much.” Maybe, if they had bothered to actually read Mein Kampf and take his words seriously, people would have known what to expect or, in the very least, not been so shocked in hindsight.

As I always tell people, if someone says that he is going to kill you, believe him…until proven otherwise. The families and friends of a lot of abused spouses, for example, learned the hard way that when the abusers said that they would kill their loved ones, they meant it.